Wednesday, August 26, 2020

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 26 August 2020.


Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ How the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is breaking the telecom bundle in the United States (and presumably, globally):
Consumer households - where the traditional broadband, pay-TV and phone bundle was already in trouble - are switching over in favour of "wireless everything".

■ TikTok calls out Netflix's fake Selling Sunset reality show for deceiving the audience: "How is this even allowed?"

■ Half of all Australian drama and children's television will disappear in the country under proposed new quota system for local original content.

■ What your Netflix watchlist says about your emotional health.

■ Perspex kisses: BBC on how on-screen romances are now continuing during the Covid-19 pandemicby using clear plastic that is digitally removed in editing.

■ Nigeria is done paying subsidies for set-top boxes (STBs) or channel carriage in the country's switch from analogue to digital TV broadcasting.

■ The BBC wants to reach a global audience of 1 billion people by the end of the 2020s.

■ Is TV good or bad for your child?

■ SuperSport CEO Gideon Khobane expects viewership on DStv to skyrocket after the Premier Soccer League (PSL) return (subscription required).

■ Lived a lie: Big Brother Naija season 4 contestant Tuoyo Ideh says he lied about being a male stripper because he "couldn't live up to it".

■ Black-only episode of British soap Hollyoaks coming as an hourlong TV special.

■ Enough of explicit sex scenes on TV. Do put some clothes on for all our sakes.